The brain child of an English businessman, with the help of an American and the landlord of The Arundell Arms, Ambrosia came into being back in 1917.
Lifton, the home of The Arundell Arms local, was established as the site for the Ambrosia Creamery and began life as a dried milk factory supplying troops in the First World War. Local farmers delivered gallons of fresh milk every day in huge 17 gallon churns, which two ladies washed out by hand to be returned to the farms and re-filled ready for the next day's delivery.
The Creamery began producing Canned Rice Pudding in the 1930s, and went on to expand considerably in the post-war period.
The Creamery began with only a dozen staff and now employs 270 local people producing the much loved staples of Ambrosia Creamed Rice and Devon Creamy Custard and continually working on new ideas.